Under the teaching of Ms. Christine Blume, Rocky Point High School juniors Zen Pinkenburg and Delaney Schwartz were awarded SUPERIOR designation for the 2024 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Achievement Award in Writing.
The NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to encourage high school students to write and to recognize some of the best student writers in the nation. Only students who are juniors may participate. Schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, US territories, Canada, and American schools abroad are eligible to nominate students for the writing program.
This year, schools nominated 633 students. Independent judges evaluated each submission holistically on content, purpose, audience, tone, word choice, organization, development, and style.
The NCTE is the nation’s most comprehensive literacy organization, supporting more than 25,000 teachers across the PreK – college spectrum. Through the expertise of its members, NCTE has served at the forefront of every major improvement in the teaching and learning of English and the language arts since 1911.
For more information about the NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing, including past winners, see
http://www.ncte.org/awards/achievement-awards-in-writing/